Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the Golden Age of Porn, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes the popular star of pornographic films and finds himself slowly descending into a nightmare of drug abuse when his fame draws him into a crowd of users and abusers.
Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) is a ha...
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Boogie Nights is a 1997 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Set in Southern California in the late 1970s and early 1980s, during the Golden Age of Porn, the screenplay focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes the popular star of pornographic films and finds himself slowly descending into a nightmare of drug abuse when his fame draws him into a crowd of users and abusers.
Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) is a handsome high school dropout and male prostitute that lives with his father and alcoholic mother in Torrance, California. He works at a suburban nightclub owned by Maurice Rodriguez (Luis Guzman) where he is discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds). He then gives himself the screen name of Dirk Diggler and becomes an instant star because of his extraordinary endowment and youthful charisma. His success allows him to purchase a new house, an extensive wardrobe, and his most prized possession: an orange Chevrolet Corvette. Dirk and...
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